FR Doc 05-10802
[Federal Register: June 1, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 104)]
[Notices]
[Page 31521-31522]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion for Native American Human Remains
and Associated Funerary Objects in the Control of the Aztec Ruins
National Monument, National Park Service, Aztec, NM; Correction
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; correction.
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Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary
objects in the control of the U.S. Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM. These human
remains and cultural items were removed from sites within and near
Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, NM.
This notice is published as part of the National Park Service's
administrative responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 U.S.C. 3003, (d)(3).
The determinations in this notice are the sole responsibility of the
Superintendent, Aztec Ruins National Monument.
This notice corrects the number of human remains reported in a
notice of inventory completion published in the Federal Register on
October 2, 1998. A recent analysis of items from a portion of the Aztec
Ruins National Monument collection identified a single bone as being
human. The remains had been identified as non-human during previous
examination. The human remains are culturally affiliated with the same
tribes as described in the original notice.
In the Federal Register of October 2, 1998, FR Doc. 98-26418, pages
53098 - 53100, two paragraphs are inserted and one paragraph is
corrected as follows:
The following two paragraphs are inserted after paragraph 12:
In 1983, human remains representing a minimum of one individual
were recovered from room 221 in the West Ruin, located within park
boundaries, during a legally authorized excavation in conjunction with
stabilization work. No known individual was identified. No funerary
objects are present.
Based on dendrochronology of the West Ruin and on cross dating of
associated ceramic sherds, these human remains date to the Pueblo III
period (circa A.D. 1100-1300).
Paragraph 27 is corrected by replacing the first sentence of the
paragraph with the following sentence:
Based on the above-mentioned information, officials of the National
Park Service have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10 (d)(1), the
human remains listed above represent the physical remains of 126
individuals of Native American ancestry.
Representatives of any other Indian tribe that believes itself to
be culturally affiliated with these human remains should contact Dennis
Carruth, Superintendent, Aztec Ruins National Monument, 84 County Road
2900, Aztec, NM 87410, telephone (505) 334-6174, before July 1, 2005.
Repatriation of these human remains to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico;
Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico;
Pueblo of San Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Santa Ana, New
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Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico may proceed after that date if no additional claimants come
forward.
Aztec Ruins National Monument is responsible for notifying the
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, Arizona
(formerly the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort
McDowell Indian Reservation); Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma; Hopi
Tribe of Arizona; Jicarilla Apache Nation, New Mexico; Navajo Nation,
Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo
of San Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo
of San Juan, New Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo
Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado; Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute
Mountain Reservation, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah; White Mountain
Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation, Arizona; Yavapai-Apache
Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation, Arizona; and Zuni Tribe of
the Zuni Reservation, New Mexico that this notice has been published.
Dated: May 20, 2005.
Paul Hoffman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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